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Inside a temple shrine at Sri Varasiththi Vinaayagar Hindu Temple of Toronto, a woman in a pink patterned salwar kameez with her long dark hair in a ponytail stands with her back to the camera, adjusting the blue silk shawl of an elderly woman with grey hair in a bun and a rudraksha mala, who wears a forehead tilak. Behind them a man in a yellow silk shawl and white kurta with a red tilak stands near ornate deity murti decorated with garlands in red, orange and white. At left a bare-chested priest with a microphone and orange garlands wears a green-and-yellow cloth, and a flower-decorated altar with fruit and framed pictures is at right.

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